Chapter 570: 570: Blacked Out Again_1

Wei Ruo is looking up, staring at Wei Jinyi in surprise.

At this moment, his body is very close to her, so close that Wei Ruo seems to feel the warmth radiating from him, making her involuntarily nervous.

“Second brother?” Wei Ruo called out softly.

Wei Jinyi doesn’t say anything, but his face is getting closer and closer, closer and closer…

His face, his lips, his breath…

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On the bed, Wei Jinyi wakes up from his drunken stupor with a slight headache.

Opening his eyes, he sees Xiaobei standing anxiously by the bedside.

“Master, you’re awake?” As soon as Xiaobei notices Wei Jinyi opening his eyes, he breathes a sigh of relief.

Wei Jinyi looks at Xiaobei, trying hard to recall the events before he got drunk.

However, he only remembers mistakenly drinking the medicinal wine and Ruoruo telling him about it and asking if he’s okay. He’s completely unable to remember anything that happened afterward.

“Where is the young lady?” Wei Jinyi asks.

“The young lady is in the backyard,” Xiaobei replies, then hesitates before adding, “Master, did you… did you…”

“What did I do to her?” Wei Jinyi quickly asks, a rare look of panic appearing on his face.

“I don’t know, all I saw was the young lady running out of your room in a fluster,” Xiaobei says.

From his room…

Wei Jinyi’s heart tightens.

Did he…

Seeing Wei Jinyi’s distressed expression, Xiaobei cautiously asks, “Master, are you alright?”

Wei Jinyi doesn’t respond, his countenance remains grave.

Xiaobei is anxious, but he doesn’t dare ask any more questions.

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Songzhu Garden.

Wei Ruo has been back in her room for a while.

Xiumei rushes in from the outside, bypasses the screen and enters the inner chamber. She sees Wei Ruo sitting on the edge of the bed in a daze and her heart immediately skips a beat.

“Miss, did the Prince do anything awful to you?”

She had heard that Wei Ruo had hurriedly left Wei Jinyi’s room, and even her blouse buttons were not properly fastened!

Wei Ruo does not respond and Xiumei immediately becomes furious: “He did, that bastard! I’ll go and find him to settle the score!”

“Wait! Don’t go!” Wei Ruo quickly stops Xiumei.

“Miss, he bullied you, I must avenge you!” Xiumei declares indignantly.

“You can’t beat him anyway, how are you going to avenge me?”

“Whether I can beat him or not, I must fight back! Bullies can’t be tolerated!”

“No, no, he didn’t bully me.” Wei Ruo hastily explains.

“Really? Why did you run out of the Prince’s room in such a hurry…”

“He accidentally drank my medicinal wine, and I just sent him back to his room to rest.”

“But Miss, you…” Xiumei glance at Wei Ruo’s chest.

The buttons are now fastened.

“It’s nothing, don’t think too much into it.” Wei Ruo responds.

Xiumei scrutinizes Wei Ruo and asks worriedly, “Miss, you’re not trying to endure and bear heavy burdens, are you?”

“Who’s enduring and bearing heavy burdens? There’s nothing to it! You shouldn’t be imagining things. Nothing happened.” Wei Ruo says, and then pushes Xiumei to the door, “Alright, alright, believe me, if I say nothing happened, then nothing happened. Go and do your own work. I’m going to take a nap!”

“Miss, well…”

Even before Xiumei finishes her words, the door is closed by Wei Ruo.

Wei Ruo leans against the door, her hand subconsciously touches her forehead…

It seems to still carry the lingering warmth of her second brother’s lips…

Just now, her second brother kissed her forehead.

Only her forehead.

So, to say that her second brother bullied her is a bit of a false accusation.

He treats her like a true sister, his kiss is just a loving peck.

On the contrary, it was her who, in the moment he got closer, didn’t push him away, but closed her eyes instead!

After realizing he was only kissing her forehead, she surprisingly felt a twinge of regret and disappointment!

As for her blouse… that was her own doing when she hurriedly left. It had nothing to do with her second brother.

How could she explain such an embarrassing thing to Xiumei!

It’s not like she could say that her second brother didn’t do anything to her, that he treated her very well and gently. It’s just her own fanciful thoughts, and she almost turned the tables on her second brother!

Wei Ruo sighs to herself, she knows her current situation is not quite normal.

The hormonal upheaval of puberty in this body is a bit over her expected range, which makes her irritable.

Not good, she cannot allow these matters to distract her anymore.

Wei Ruo shakes her head, casting all these miscellaneous thoughts from her mind.

Then she walks to the desk, opens the account books, and focuses her attention on important matters.

Spring has come, and there are a heap of matters to arrange, she has plenty to keep her busy. She doesn’t have time to think about these trivial matters!

Also, that fox, Fan Chengxu, actually said he is coming to Capital City.

After Xu Heyou “passed away”, Wei Ruo inherited his shops and business as Xu Heyou’s relative and continued carrying on a correspondence with Fan Chengxu.

Knowing early on that he was a cunning fox and not easy to deal with, Wei Ruo thought as long as she kept corresponding with him, she could stall for some time.

However, this man must have gotten the wrong end of the stick. Despite being a man who originally had no intention of returning to Capital City and being involved in court politics, he suddenly wrote to say he was returning to the city.

She can’t stop him from returning, but the problem is how she’s going to face him and discuss matters.

However, thinking about it further, he probably won’t come to see her that quickly. With the significant changes in the court, the Fan Family must also be implicated. Fan Chengxu’s entrance into the city will surely be delayed by this affair.

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Knowing she can’t help with matters at hand, Xiumei heads to the kitchen to make some snacks for Wei Ruo.

Delicious food could always lift up her mistress’s mood!

On her way, Xiumei runs into Xiaobei who also happens to be heading for the kitchen.

Upon seeing Xiaobei, Xiumei snorts.

Xiaobei quickly comes up beside Xiumei, and they walk together on their way to the kitchen.

Xiaobei initiates a conversation: “Lady Xiumei, how is the young lady doing now?”

“Did your master bully my lady?” Xiumei counter-questions.

“What did the young lady say? Did my master bully her?” Xiaobei hastily asks.

Xiaobei is here on a mission, purposely “running into” Xiumei. He wants to inquire about Wei Ruo’s condition through Xiumei, then report back to his master.

“Why don’t you know? Aren’t you always serving your master?” Xiumei huffy turns a cold shoulder to Xiaobei.

“I really don’t know. But Lady Xiumei, my master would never bully the young lady. You’ve seen how he treats her usually.”

“He usually wouldn’t, but when he’s drunk, it’s a different story. Your master turns into a different person once he gets drunk.”

Xiaobei is at a loss for a rebuttal and can only apologize: “Lady Xiumei, please don’t be angry. If my master did anything disrespectful to the young lady while drunk, I hope you could put in some good words for him in front of the young lady. He definitely didn’t do it on purpose!”